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EP 0264048 B1 · Applicant: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
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- Filed October 6, 1987 and granted July 21, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 6, 2007.
- A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by April 6, 2013.
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FiledOctober 6, 1987
PublishedApril 20, 1988
GrantedJuly 21, 1993
Term endedOctober 6, 2007
Application numberEP 87114543
Classification (CPC)G06F15/7896
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